JennyMorgan Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Looks like the round-trip could be a lot longer unless you all dump your diesel engines in favour of masts & sails. http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/how_rising_sea_levels_could_change_the_shape_of_east_anglia_1_4331614 Won't need to worry about going under Potter Heigham Bridge, just sail past it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawsOrca Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Wow that looks amazing all that extra waterway!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I can see it now....Broad Ambition cruising up the A47 ...A17...A1M and on to Donny...The mind boggles! Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Oh good, I'll be living on an island like it was in Roman times, Oh 2100, I'll be dead on an Island like it was in Roman times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senator Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Correction, Yorkshire is now a lot closer to the Broads as long as we all keep our diesel engines, problem will be if you rely on sails to get from one side of the Broads to the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExUserGone Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Perfect! A coastal cruise 10 miles from home and a shorter run into the broads via PH (around the poxy bridge) and an island hopping trip around lowestoft, the dump of kings lynn submerged and the new seaside town of downham market has a good cafe for breakfast, whats not to like? (and a good chippie) I'm going to fit another 5 volvo's to snowbird to speed things up a bit, you won't need sunglasses with my smog cloud! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDTRIPLE Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 It`s all rubbish anyway. On one of Neil Olivers "coast" programmes, he was diving many miles of the Norfolk / Lincolnshire coast. He was diving in deep water, and was filming tree stumps on the bottom of the North sea. He went through the history of how the UK once was linked by land to continetal Europe, and that the North sea was once a small estuary, and the english channell did`nt exist, as it was all once solid land. Yet over many thousands of years, the natural slipping and moving of land through tectonic plates etc resulted in the North Sea and English Channell as we know it, and it`s continually moving to this day, and for thousands of years in the future. Deisel engines, or ANY internal combustion engines have nothing to do with rising sea levels. That is what is known by politicians as "the incovenient truth". Time to have a serious look into raising Pottor Heigham and Wroxham bridges i think . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanessan Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hope the BA don't take too much notice of this, our tolls will increase dramatically with all that waterway! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevDave Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Potter Heigham Bridge will be more of an underwater obstruction - we'll be able to sail round it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senator Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Now they are predicting what is going to happen in 80 years but at the end of October they were predicting a really cold November due to the strongest el nino in 50 years, apparently warning signs are the south pacific temperatures rising. Well the temperatures rose in the pacific and we have had the record hottest November on record. If they can't predict what is happening next month how can what they predict for 80 years time have any credence whatsoever? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 1 hour ago, RevDave said: Potter Heigham Bridge will be more of an underwater obstruction - we'll be able to sail round it. Hi RevDave, Welcome to the NBN Forum Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Hello RevDave, Welcome to the NBN Forum from Tan & mayself. Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 Sailing around that Bridge might be a problem for some. Me, I'll just yank my plate up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I understand that many of the broads came into being following the digging of peat. I wonder what scare stories went around then? "If we carry on like this, Londoners will be able to bring their bling boats here" "stop digging-the Scots will arrive in their droves" (sorry Iain, couldn't resist it). "If we carry on, people will start hiring out boats, and a whole new industry will commence bringing jobs and visitors to the area" Perhaps they stopped because they thought burning peat would cause an ice age/global warming (take your pick). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 And before MM or any of his "gang" ask, as far as I know a Scottish "Drove" is not a boat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 18 minutes ago, johnb said: And before MM or any of his "gang" ask, as far as I know a Scottish "Drove" is not a boat! It's an unhealthily motorised 'yoll', very common around the islands of the West Coast. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 12 minutes ago, johnb said: And before MM or any of his "gang" ask, as far as I know a Scottish "Drove" is not a boat! Drove, aye, I drove to Sainsbury's today n back again. you are right though, I sure have "drove" to Norfolk many times. Dodging "herds" of tractors on the A17. Well I like to "flock" to the Broads, who in their right mind, wouldn't !!! Iain. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 My gang??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 1 minute ago, MauriceMynah said: My gang??? Like minded pedants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDTRIPLE Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 10 hours ago, senator said: Now they are predicting what is going to happen in 80 years but at the end of October they were predicting a really cold November due to the strongest el nino in 50 years, apparently warning signs are the south pacific temperatures rising. Well the temperatures rose in the pacific and we have had the record hottest November on record. If they can't predict what is happening next month how can what they predict for 80 years time have any credence whatsoever? Absolurtely spot on Ian. I only said to Karen this morning how they were predicting it as "Snovvember", but while we were on Lightning from the 7th - 14th, on a couple of days we had warmer more sunny weather than when we there in May / June. We had the heating on in November, but only on low. We only had 2 days when we lit the woodburner, but even that got too hot, so we had to open a window to cool the lounge down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 "Like minded Pendants?" E said that, not me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm hanged if I'm going to be a pendant, so there! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 oo, I knew I should just kept quiet!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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